The argument over how society should respond to addiction is usually framed in medical or political terms, but beneath it lies a moral dispute: what kind of thing is addiction, and what does our ...

Every year, thousands of Americans die from drug overdoses in places where the nearest ambulance is 20 minutes away, the ...

Local health officials fear an executive order dictating that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) can no longer fund harm reduction programs will accelerate the ...

Access to harm reduction programs such as syringe exchange is lowest in rural and suburban areas, where rates of addiction to heroin and other opioids are on the rise, according to a study led by ...

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Samson Tafolo, left, and Crushow Herring, in knit hat, distribute harm reduction supplies from the Sidewalk Project on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on March 26, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles ...

LOWELL — There’s never been a safe injection site in the city of Lowell, but to make sure that remains the case, Councilors Corey Robinson and Erik Gitschier put a motion on Tuesday’s agenda to have ...

Fargo Cass Public Health leaders sat down with The Forum to explain how the program at the Harm Reduction Center works. North Dakota law requires that when syringes like this one are distributed ...

A police unit that connects people with recovery programs is expanding from Mass. and Cass to encompass the entire city. The ...

"It was an important step on a long pathway," said Robert Heimer, professor of epidemiology and pharmacology at the Yale ...

Long Beach’s Department of Health and Human Services has expanded its Harm Reduction Program to include a mail-based delivery option for Long Beach residents seeking free harm-reduction supplies, such ...